Welding-type system with field programmable hardware
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsJames Ulrich, Brian Brown, Eric Bollerman
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Abstract
A welding-type control system including configurable hardware, a hardware configuration memory device that configures the configurable hardware when loaded with configuration data, a processor, an input portal via which the processor can receive a file with the configuration data, and a memory with instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to transfer the configuration data in the file to the memory device. A controlled system including such a welding-type control system includes a welding system, a cladding system or a plasma cutting system.
Claims12
A welding-type control system comprising;
- configurable hardware;
- a hardware configuration memory device that configures the configurable hardware when loaded with configuration data;
- a processor;
- an input portal via which the processor can receive a file with the configuration data;
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- memory including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to transfer the configuration data in the file to the memory device.
A non transitory computer readable medium that includes program instructions that when executed by a welding-type system processor, cause the processor to:
- (a) read a header in a raw programming data file to validate the raw programming data file;
- (b) extract raw programming data from the raw programming data file;
- and (c) transmit the raw programming data to a hardware configuration memory device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.